Bachelor of Arts in Communication

Online Degree

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The Bachelor of Arts in Communication is based upon research and coursework that emphasize the rhetorical, organizational, interpersonal, and mediated contexts and perspectives which define the field of communication. These are advanced through the faculty's commitment to the scholarships of discovery, teaching, application, and integration.

Program Structure

This program is delivered through 18 hours of core communication courses and 18 hours of communication electives. These courses will familiarize students with a range of theories, methods of inquiry, philosophies, and practices of the communication discipline, develop skills for analyzing, interpreting, and critiquing communication problems and questions, and will promote the development of communication competence, especially an understanding of how taken-for-granted communication patterns create and sustain human relations.

The Bachelor of Arts in Communication different from the Bachelor of Science in Communication in that the bachelor of arts requires more foreign language and liberal arts credits and fewer credits in communication.